{"id":36085,"date":"2016-10-12T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36085"},"modified":"2016-10-10T13:14:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:14:26","slug":"jonah-goldberg-was-having-a-case-of-the-mondays-on-a-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/jonah-goldberg-was-having-a-case-of-the-mondays-on-a-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonah Goldberg was having &#8220;a case of the Mondays on a Friday&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/g-file\/440850\/obamacare-failed-promises\" target=\"_blank\">Goldberg File email<\/a>, Jonah explained how even taking time away from covering the presidential race wasn&#8217;t quite as restful as he might have hoped:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m having a case of the Mondays on a Friday. I keep poking at the computer screen like an orangutan with a Speak-and-Spell. (For the kids out there, a Speak-and-Spell is what my generation called an iPad.) I\u2019m taking a much-needed vacation day from writing about that whole presidential-election thing. But, when I look at the all the other headlines, I kind of feel like I\u2019m visiting a museum after the zombie apocalypse. It\u2019s not that these things aren\u2019t important, they just seem like they\u2019re from another time. <\/p>\n<p>You have to stare at the painting or the sculpture for a few minutes until you can conjure the memory of why this stuff matters. Take, for example, the dawning realization that Obamacare is like a Claymation version of Wagner\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3ZP-yXsNV2E\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Der Ring Des Nibelungen<\/em><\/a> staged entirely with characters sculpted out of fecal matter: The mother of all sh*t shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last week&#8217;s Goldberg File email, Jonah explained how even taking time away from covering the presidential race wasn&#8217;t quite as restful as he might have hoped: I\u2019m having a case of the Mondays on a Friday. I keep poking at the computer screen like an orangutan with a Speak-and-Spell. (For the kids out there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,53,13],"tags":[937],"class_list":["post-36085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-politics","category-usa","tag-obamacare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9o1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36086,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36085\/revisions\/36086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}